Talk:ALGOL 58

ZMMD paragraph confusing
I have two questions about this paragraph:

"By the end of 1958 the ZMMD-group had built a working ALGOL 58 compiler for the Z22. ZMMD said Zürich (ie. Rutishauser), München (ie. Bauer, Samelson), Mainz (ie. Z22), Darmstadt (ie. Bottenbruch)."

Riordanmr (talk) 19:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * What is the ZMMD-group?
 * What does the second sentence mean?


 * Heinz Rutishauser, Friedrich L. Bauer, Hermann Bottenbruch, and Klaus Samelson teamed up to develop the compiler.
 * ZMMD is an abbreviation for Zürich, München, Mainz, Darmstadt – for Heinz Rutishauser was professor at the ETH Zurich, Friedrich Bauer and Klaus Samelson both worked in Munich, the Z22 which they built it for stood in Mainz, and Hermann Bottenbruch was a mathematician from Darmstadt.
 * Sincerely, 217.236.218.232 (talk) 23:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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SUBALGOL
Was the SUBALGOL compiler on the Stanford 7090 called BALGOL at the time? I remember knowing about a BALGOL compiler at Stanford, not one called SUBALGOL. Gah4 (talk) 01:25, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Atlas Autocode and Imp
I'll mention this in Talk because I don't have the reference to hand: I believe when Tony Brooker invented Atlas Autocode it was in direct response to Algol58 and in competition with Algol60, rather than being a response to Algol60 as I have seen posted elsewhere. I don't know if being a response to a language counts as a version of the language - maybe not, but they certainly have a lot in common. (For comparison, do you consider C to be a variation of BCPL? Probably not. It was influenced by it and in response to it, but not obviously a dialect of it - same as the relationship between Algol58 and Atlas Autocode.) Atlas Autocode on the other hand morphed into Imp in a smooth continuum, with the name change happening only after sufficient incremental changes had been made that it looked like a new name was needed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.124.38.160 (talk) 21:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)